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Richard Ellmann

Richard Ellmann (1918–1987) was an American critic and biographer. He taught at Northwestern, Oxford and Emory, where he was named Robert W. Professor in 1980. He won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for James Joycein 1959; a revised edition was awarded the James Tate Black Memorial Prize in 1982.

Oscar Meets Walt

December 3, 1987 issue

Nayman of Noland

April 24, 1986 issue

Yeats’s Second Puberty

May 9, 1985 issue

Heaney Agonistes

Station Island

by Seamus Heaney

March 14, 1985 issue

The Big Word in ‘Ulysses’

Ulysses: A Critical and Synoptic Edition

by James Joyce, prepared by Hans Walter Gabler and Wolfhard Steppe and Claus Melchior

October 25, 1984 issue

Letter

John T. Noonan Jr.

It’s Love

February 14, 1985 issue

Oscar at Oxford

March 29, 1984 issue

The Ghost of Westerly Terrace

Parts of a World, Wallace Stevens Remembered: An Oral Biography

by Peter Brazeau

November 24, 1983 issue

Absolution

October 13, 1983 issue

Murder in the Monastery?

The Name of the Rose

by Umberto Eco, translated by William Weaver

July 21, 1983 issue

Letter

Thomas Kerth

Absolution

October 13, 1983 issue

Joyce at 100

When a friend asked him why he was writing Finnegans Wake in the way he was, Joyce replied, with a brag intended to provoke a smile, “To keep the critics busy for three hundred years.”

November 18, 1982 issue